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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Drilling holes in DS/DD -> DS/HD
Message-ID: <3662@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 20 Dec 89 00:49:22 GMT
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Reply-To: wilkins@jarthur.UUCP (Mark Wilkins)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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  If it is so dangerous to do this hole punching, why is it that at least
one of the several HD drives shipped with the IBM PS/2 series DO NOT CHECK
FOR THE HOLE AT ALL AND ASSUME 1.4 MB FORMATTING?
  Needless to say, it greatly dismayed me when my IIci with Apple File
Exchange offered to initialize my 1.4 Mb IBM floppies at 720K because they had
no hole in them.
  Is is possible that Apple is being paid off by the disk manufacturers?

-- Mark Wilkins
   wilkins@jarthur.claremont.edu